First of all: check out the new Bloggingbelmont.com header graphic. I got tired of the standard Google maps graphic, so I used my handy Powershot to take this panorama pic from the Belmont Center train platform a week or so…
Category: politics
Belmont property values down 6%?
I’m a big fan of the new breed of Web based real estate tracking sites like Zillow.com, Redfin.com and the like. They’re incredibly powerful tools for studying home values, researching towns and so on. The amount of information they consolidate…
(Updated) Town Meeting II, Electric Boogaloo!
We’re back in session here to finish up seven items left over from Monday evening’s Town Meeting. When we left off, 1) my laptop battery had run out and 2) there was an amendment proposed to item #10, an omnibus…
New campaign to support tech tools for teaching
Hey all. I just got an e-mail message from Lynne Polcari over at the Foundation for Belmont Education. Lynne’s a B2 reader and wanted to make others who read this blog aware of an upcoming event on May 6th (Tuesday)…
Live blogging Town Meeting: 300 people, 27 articles — Fun!
7:45PM live blogging here– starting a bit late here and with a different feel under new moderator Mike Widmer, with both an ecumenical prayer (not sure how I feel about that), the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance (eh) and…
Open Meeting Laws: Just because you’re paranoid…
Remember that old saying “just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”? Well, that was the saying that ran through my mind after hearing back from Middlesex Assistant DA Robert Bender. I wrote to the…
Belmont PD virtual tour (part 2 of 2)
We’re continuing our virtual tour of Belmont’s police headquarters today, with the help of Chief Richard McLaughlin, who gave me a walk around earlier in the month. If you remember from B2’s previous post, the police HQ is in rough…
In the Mix: Dan Leclerc – town should focus on sustaining services
I was pleased to sit down at Bruegger’s Bagels on Friday morning and chat with one of our Selectmen, Dan Leclerc, about the coming override(s), some of the challenges facing the town, and life as a Selectman. This was a…
Belmont PD virtual tour
As we all know, the town has a long list of capital projects that need attention. In the immediate future, there’s an override vote for road reconstruction in June. At B2, our attention is focused on the Wellington School, which…
Selectmen’s new e-mail policy doesn’t add up
First off, my sincere apologies for the delay in writing this week — work has taken me offline and out of town for much of the last week. The good news is that there is some cool new content in…